What’s New
Ended Accepting Applications for the TOMODACHI Story Jam for Youth with Disabilities
TOMODACHI Story Jam for Youth with Disabilities is a 9-week digital storytelling and youth leadership program that brings together Japanese and American college students and young professionals with disabilities to collectively explore and identify a...more
TOMODACHI Toshizo Watanabe Leadership Program 2022
The TOMODACHI Toshizo Watanabe Leadership Program is for high school students from all over Japan, who are the next generation leaders, and aims to develop human resources who will contribute to U.S.-Japan relations in the future. Through homestays, ...more
TOMODACHI Alumna Featured on NHK World
TOMODACHI Summer SoftBank Leadership Program alumna Hinako Murakami, member of the Overseas Business Division of FISHERMAN JAPAN, was recently featured on NHK World on March 5. The story highlights the direct impact the TOMODACHI Initiative has had o...more
Japanese Female University Students in STEM Successfully Completed In-person Program in the United States
From February 12 through March 16, 2022, nine Japanese female university students traveled to the U.S. and successful completed the in-person portion of 2020-2021 TOMODACHI-STEM Women’s Leadership and Research Program at Lehigh University in Pennsylv...more
Japanese University Students Studying in the U.S. Visit New York for a Leadership Training Program
From March 6 to 10, 2022, ten scholars, the 8th cohort of the TOMODACHI Sumitomo Corporation Scholarship Program, participated in the leadership training program held in New York City. The training was generously hosted by Sumitomo Corporation and th...more
